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| Oak Flat photo courtesy Apache Stronghold |
Biden's Justice Department Opposing Protection of Oak Flat -- Violating Native American Religious Freedom Rights
By Brenda NorrellCensored News
President Biden's Justice Department is in federal court in San Francisco, fighting the Apache Stronghold's protection of their ceremonial place at Oak Flat in Arizona. The U.S. Justice Department is opposing rehearing of the case. Instead, the Justice Department is promoting the destruction of sacred land for a copper mine for the foreign company Resolution Copper.
Resolution Copper has desecrated sacred land in Australia and violated Indigenous rights around the world. In its own reports, Resolution Copper admits to a high rate of rapes in its mines, with the highest rates of sexual abuse in Australia and South Africa.
In San Francisco at federal court, Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr., of Apache Stronghold is struggling to protect Oak Flat.
“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us—our most sacred site where we connect with our Creator, our faith, our families, and our land. It is a place of healing that has been sacred to us since long before Europeans arrived on this continent. My children, grandchildren, and the generations after them deserve to practice our traditions at Oak Flat.”
Below is the U.S. government's opposition to the protection of Oak Flat, opposition to upholding Native American Freedom of Religion Rights, and pressuring the court to give open access to Resolution Copper's mine.
No. 21-15295
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
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APACHE STRONGHOLD,
Plaintiff/Appellant,
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al.,
Defendants/Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
No. CV-21-00050-PHX-SPL (Hon. Steven P. Logan)
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OPPOSITION TO REHEARING EN BANC
MNN. Sep. 6, 2022. The indigenous and officials of McGill knew the indigenous children were being experimented on at McGill University’s Allen Memorial Institute. It appears the bodies were hidden so they could never be found. The indigenous always wondered what happened to their children. McGill owes all indigenous people an explanation. It is time to remedy that. All graves must be found rather than more structures being built over them to hide them. Out West, the dead children were found buried in the concrete foundations. Many children are still out there somewhere. All of turtle island is soaked in the blood of the indigenous people. 
